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Camera West is a Canadian documentary television series which aired on CBC Television from 1964 to 1967.

Premise

This series of mid-year documentaries was produced in Vancouver and concentrated on life in western Canada and featured varying topics.[1]

Scheduling

The first run of this half-hour series was broadcast on Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 1 July to 16 September 1964. In the following seasons it was seen on Sundays, 10:30 p.m. in the second season (11 July to 12 September 1965), 10:00 p.m. in the third season (3 to 24 July 1966) and finally 5:30 p.m. in its fourth season (16 July to 24 September 1967).

Episodes

1964 season
  • "Circles of Power" (Michael Rothery producer; Peter Haworth writer), a two-part series on witchcraft
  • "Ghost of Walhachin" (Tom Connachie producer and writer), about a British Columbia settlement
  • "The Fountain of Youth" (Doug Gillingham), about a health farm
  • "The Good Citizens" (Doug Gillingham producer; Hilda Mortimer writer), a two-part series about Chinese Canadians in the west
  • "Shawnigan" (George Robertson writer and director), featuring the private Victoria-area Shawinigan Lake School for boys
  • "Strange Gray Day, This" (Maurice Embra producer), featuring poet and artist bill bissett
  • "Through the Looking Glass" (Michael Rothery producer; David Gray writer), regarding LSD's clinical use
  • "Tricks or Treatment" (Gordon Babineau), about hypnotism
  • "Whatever Happened to the Horse?"
1965 season
  • "Crystal Prize", about an international ski competition at Crystal Mountain, Washington
  • "The Heart of the Thing", about Emily Carr
  • "Immigrant Impressions": recent immigrants to Vancouver give their impressions of the city and various aspects of Canadian mores and culture[2]
  • "The Last Parade", about Portuguese immigrants in the Okanagan Valley
  • "A Matter of Choice" (Stanley Fox producer); on British Columbia's Irish Fusiliers
  • "Paul Kane"
  • "Shawnigan" (rebroadcast from 1964)
  • "The Islanders" (George Robertson producer), about the Gulf Islands
1966 season
  • "Carole" (Gene Lawrence producer; Dave Brock writer), about Vancouver School of Art student Carole Thompson
  • features on Vancouver's West End
  • a documentary on how children have less creative initiative as they grow older
  • an episode about the Lusitania's sinking, based on Len Chapple's radio documentary

References

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